Her country's failed politician could be Oliver Varhelyi's successor

Ursula von der Leyen The future members of the new European Commission were presented on Tuesday. The German politician stressed at his press conference that member states had originally nominated only 22 percent women for the posts, which he considered unacceptable, and that in the end the percentage could have been raised to 40 percent. However, he stumbled while presenting the candidate, saying he was Slovenian Marta Kos parliamentary hearing Not yetBut the Ljubljana Parliament's decision on the matter is not “non-binding” in any case.

In Slovenia, there has been a fierce political debate over the Commissioner’s candidate, with the opposition blocking the procedure for his appointment. The right-wing opposition party SDS chairs the parliamentary committee dealing with EU affairs, which has been summoned to hear Kos. SDS Committee Chairman, Frank Breznick He had not held a board meeting for a long time, so they only agreed to support Koss on Wednesday, after von der Leyen's announcement.

Breznik requested various documents on the reasons why the government decided to nominate him, as well as the previous candidate, the current incumbent. Tomaz Vessel And under what circumstances did he withdraw? A few months ago, it already seemed that Wessel might return to the European Commission, and then he justified his withdrawal by saying that He has a different concept. On the performance of the European Union, as is the case with von der Leyen.

In fact, according to the Slovenian opposition, Vesel resigned because of this.

Von der Leyen wrote a letter to the Slovenian prime minister, who leads the liberal-left coalition. Robert Golobnakto nominate a politician with a strong political background as EU Commissioner.

In return, he allegedly offered to give Slovenia a more influential position in the new commission than before. This task is none other than the enlargement of the Union, which Hungary has been the commissioner for until now, Oliver Varhelyi Managed, which ended up with one of the lightest health and animal care portfolios.

The Ljubljana Specialized Committee on EU Affairs interrogated Kos for hours, with the SPD representatives sometimes attacking him in such harsh terms that the opposition committee chairman had to warn them off and order them away. Basically, two accusations were made:

• He may have been an informant or a member of the former Yugoslav communist intelligence service,
• And that as a Swiss ambassador he was acting arrogantly towards his subordinates, which exposed them to a kind of harassment.